DEDICATED
to that amazing device, the Required Reading List,
better even than artificial respiration
for keeping dead authors alive.Richard Armour (1906–1989) American poet and author
Book (1960), The Classics Reclassified, Dedication
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Quotations about:
relevance
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Irrelevant things may happen to you, but once they have happened they all become relevant.
Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) American journalist and author
The Neurotic’s Notebook, ch. 4 (1963)
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They think that intelligence is about noticing things that are relevant (detecting patterns); in a complex world, intelligence consists in ignoring things that are irrelevant (avoiding false patterns).
Nassim Nicholas Taleb (b. 1960) Lebanese-American essayist, statistician, risk analyst, aphorist
The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms, “Epistomology and Subtractive Knowledge” (2010)
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If you dislike change, you’re going to dislike irrelevance even more.
Eric Shinseki (b. 1942) American military leader, bureaucrat
Quoted in Mackubin Thomas Owens, “Marines Turned Soldiers,” National Review Online (10 Dec 2001)
For to a great man both things are needful; to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important matters.
[Denn zu einem großen Manne gehört beides: Kleinigkeiten als Kleinigkeiten, und wichtige Dinge als wichtige Dinge zu behandeln.]
Gotthold Lessing (1729–1781) German playwright, philosopher, dramaturg, writer
Hamburgische Dramaturgie [Hamburg Dramaturgy], Essay 34, 1767-08-25 (1767-1769) [tr. Zimmern (1890)]
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(Source (German)). Other translations:For the great man does both, that is, he treats trivialities as trivialities and important things as important things.
[tr. Arons/Figal]It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important.
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